Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picnic includes William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, and Sarah Groin. Bring your own sandwiches. State and Orpheum. Orpheum understandably runs 15 minutes ahead of the sovereign State, which asserts itself...
...with a new and almost cat-like power and precision. Sinatra's virtuosity also seems to have inspired the other members of the cast, for most of them give unusually fine performances. Arnold Stang, as a musy little thief, somehow manages to appear both corrupt and appealing, while Kim Novak, as a girl who loves Frankie, gives the rather routine character of "the other woman" considerable stature through an astute bit of underacting...
...With the Golden Arm is Frank Sinatra, but the swooning in the picture has nothing to do with singing. Happy dust fills the air as an absorbed audience watches the hero get his, but not in the end. Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak gradually displace the heroin; as a result, Robert Benchley finds himself unable to sleep in a short at Loew's State and Orpheum...
...needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain of being alive. He begs a blonde tramp (Kim Novak) who loves him to get him just one fix. She refuses and pleads with him to give it up. He says he can't. It's easier to roll all the pain up into one big ball and then kill it with a needle...
...serve this end with a well-directed will. Arnold Stang, as Sparrow the dog stealer, looks as woebegone and unhealthy as a tenement torn just starting his ninth life on the garbage-can circuit, but he seldom hides the human quality of his part behind his television false face. Kim Novak is the type of the neighborhood frill, and she gives her big scene all she's got. Frank Sinatra, in particular, does a hurting job. Weary, weak, bewildered, battered, Frank's dogged Frankie is a creature who comes bitterly to understand that fate is character, fate...